> For the same reason ReasonML took years to overtake fartscroll.js in the number of stars on GitHub.
Wow, that's a fascinating statistic! Certainly puts the popularity delta into a different light.
On a separate note, the fartscroll.js demo page[0] no longer works since code.onion.com is no longer accessible. Truly disappointing. Luckily their release zip contains an example.html!
Well, it was actually slightly less than two years:
https://www.star-history.com/#theonion/fartscroll.js&reasonm...
I remember the hype back when it was released, though. You don't hear much about it any more.
Re:The Concise TypeScript Book
by phplovesong on Monday January 12, 2026 @04:26AM
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Is this a serious take? Do we now measure popularity based on github stars? Thats sort of like measuring how good software is by the amount of LOC.
Hardly anyone cares TypeScript isn't perfect when they can migrate their (or anyone else's) terrible, but business-critial JS library to TS and continue development without skipping a beat.
For the same reason ReasonML took years to overtake fartscroll.js in the number of stars on GitHub.
A huge part of TS's complexity is there so that library authors can describe some exotic behaviours seen normally only in dynamically-typed languages. When you're writing an app you don't need the vast majority of those features. Personally I regret every usage of `infer` in application code.